Voyages in Print: English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521036504)

In the decades leading up to England's first permanent American colony, the literature that emerged needed to establish certain realities against a background of skepticism, and it also had to find ways of theorizing the enterprise. The voyage narratives evolved almost from the outset as a genre concerned with recuperating failure--as noble, strategic, even as a form of success. Reception of these texts since the Victorian era has often accepted their claims of heroism and mastery; this study argues for a more complicated, less glorious history.

Author: Mary C. Fuller
ISBN-10: 052103650X
ISBN-13: 9780521036504
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2007
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d